BOSTON—John McCain, at a campaign stop with Henry Kissinger, said the United States should declare it would never torture anyone in its custody.
He also said the U.S. should start building nuclear power plants to reduce its reliance on foreign oil.
"We have to go back to nuclear power," McCain said at historic Faneuil Hall, less than a mile from Republican rival Mitt Romney's campaign headquarters. "It's clean and it does reduce greenhouse gases."
McCain also said the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba should be shut down and tribunals set up for those still detained at Guantanamo. He said he's seen no evidence detainees are being mistreated, but the prison is harming America's reputation in the world.
And the CIA's destruction of videotaped terror interrogations has led to the impression that the United States is using torture against suspects, he said.
McCain, hoping to gain ground on Romney in neighboring New Hampshire, also criticized the release of a recent U.S. intelligence estimate that found Iran halted a nuclear weapons program in 2003, saying it may discourage some countries from continuing to pressure Iran.
"We don't want intelligence agencies to make policy," he said.
Kissinger, secretary of state for presidents Nixon and Ford, said McCain's experience as a former prisoner of war in Vietnam helped forge his character.
"The senator had five years in solitary figuring out who he is and why he is serving his country," he said.
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